HDFS 1500 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Name the 7 epistimologies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1-Personal Experience
2- Spiritual/Metaphysical
3-Authority
4-Tradition
5-Reason
6-Empiricism (evidence)
7-Post-Modernism (all create own truths)
Which epistemology is most useful? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Empiricism
normative age-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- influences that are similar for
individuals in a particular age group
normative history-graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- influences that are common
to people of a particular generation because of historical circumstances
normative life events - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Unusual occurrences that have a major
impact on a person's life
Socioemotional Processes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- changes in an individual's
relationships with other people, emotions, and personality
Prenatal Period - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- conception to birth
Infancy Period - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- birth to 18-24 months
Early childhood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 2-6 years
, Middle/Late childhood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 6-11 years
Adolescence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 11-22 years
Early Adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- lasts through 30s
Middle Adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lasts through 60s
Late Adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 70s until death
Preformationism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- small things become big
lifespan perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- development is lifelong, multidimensional
and multidirectional, highly plastic, and affected by multiple interacting forces
4 steps of scientific method - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Conceptualize a process or
problem to be studied
2. Collect research information (data)
3. Analyze data
4. Draw conclusions
Psychoanalytic theories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- development in terms of unconscious
processes (Freud and Erikson used this reasoning)
Cognitive theories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- focus on conscious thoughts (Piaget and
Vygotsky used this reasoning)
Behavior and Social Cognitive Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- development can be
described in terms of behaviors learned through interactions with our surroundings;
development is continuous
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